Antenatal Pilates Exercising during pregnancy offers many benefits to both mother and baby! Research has shown that exercising during the prenatal period can enhance your baby’s growth and development, while improving both yours and your baby’s cardiovascular health. Pilates is a safe form of exercise to do at any stage of your pregnancy. It has
Claim Your Medical Expenses! All major health insurers recognise care provided by Chartered Physiotherapists at Peak Physio. To check your own cover, please review your own policy for its terms and conditions. We will provide receipts for all your treatment sessions either session by session or a full receipt of all visits at the end
In these 3 video’s we look at early, mid and end stage Rehab of an ankle sprain.
Starting a pilates class and unsure what to expect? Here at Peak Physio, all our classes are run by a chartered physiotherapist. If you are new to our clinic or pilates, we carry out a Free 15 min ‘Pre-Pilates Screening’. This enables the physiotherapist to provide a baseline and education on pilates before beginning the
Looking to improve your golfing performance? 4 steps to achieve this.
The graph above represents the power output, which can also be thought of as the intensity of an activity (x-axis), with regard to the corresponding heart rate (left axis) and lactate produced (right axis).
What is Dry Needling? Myofascial trigger point dry needling is a technique used to release myofascial trigger points. It involves the insertion of sterile single use acupuncture needles into the muscle to target a trigger point. This causes a local twitch response, the muscle contracts and relaxes. This causes a chemical response which helps to
German-born Joseph Pilates invented the classical pilates method while working to rehabilitate soldiers badly injured in war. He used resistance devices attached to beds to allow bed ridden patients to exercise their muscles. He only wrote one book on his technique before he died. Since the passing of Joseph Pilates, the techniques have been modified
Feeling achy, sore and tired after a day’s work? Many of us spend most of our working day sitting at a desk. Working full time that means nearly 2000 hours a year at your desk! Two in three Irish adults are not getting enough activity to maximise the benefits for their health. Results from the Irish
This is a must read for all you avid cyclists! Having previously talked about the importance of the gluteal (bum) muscles. Now I’m going to look at this from the aspect of cycling, during the initial phase of cycling (12-4 o’clock) the glutes were an important muscle group for generating power, and by improving
